A Big Year for Small Breweries It’s been a big year for small breweries in the Sacramento region. Nine microbreweries opened in Sacramento, Yolo, Placer and El Dorado counties in 2013, bringing the total number to 31. And another four…

ED MURRIETA Originally published in The Tacoma News Tribune, Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 12:01 AM (PST) My colleagues in the food press like to paint Anthony Bourdain as the Jack Kerouac of the kitchen, an articulate bad boy roaming the seamy…

Ed’s note: My favorite story I ever wrote. Crumley liked it too. Here’s his email to me: Wilford Brimley?! Jesus. Actually there’s a history. I walked into a backyard barbeque in LA once, and some bit actor shouted actoss the…

BY ED MURRIETA Beer: It’s what’s for dinner. If that doesn’t sober up diners who favor wine, consider that craft beer – the non-Budweiser brews for which the Pacific Northwest and other rogue brewing capitals are savored – enjoyed a…

BY ED MURRIETA In about 36 hours, one of the little porkers that Cheryl Ouellette raises on her free-range farm in Summit will be served as a pulled-pork special at Primo Grill in Tacoma. But first, dinner must wake up.…